claire elizabeth joy fitzpatick

2009 so far

it's not starting out the way i thought it would
cardinals in the super bowl even crazier if they win
i fucking can not stand kanye west
but can not stop listening to the 808's & heartbreaks
my mom is in the hospital but should be just fine
i cried watching a movie last night. hard cry too
i'm working every fucking day but sunday
i did stumble across my new fav online comic
truckbearingkibble dot com
i'm lonely most of the time
i did find an ipa i like
it's just a winter slump thing i'm sure
i'll see baby birds soon and be back to normal

New Decemberists

I don't know if anyone aside from me still actively follows The Decemberists but they just released the first track from their new album on their website (here). It's called "The Rake's Song" and I do believe that it is a keeper. I love it when a band excites me so much before their album is released (or even leaked as far as I can tell) by putting out a single, different sounding, track to whet the appetite. I was mildly excited about The Hazards of Love before this, but am full on excited about it now. INFANTICIDE!

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more resolutions

from Alessandro Echevarria

dear deuce

it's been so long, and i've been so lost. i've stopped by occasionally and read a lot of the posts during my usual hypnotic click-through-the-internet-before-bed swing, and even woken up the next morning to find half a post written but never posted (then never posted).

i'm really putting my final touches on a best of 2007 list, being so far behind in listening to all the music being cranked out. so my 2008 list is all retreads, and now that i've seen all the blog lists and shit i'll start listening to that and my 2008 list should be done around... May. anyway, my guess is that i listened to 25 new albums that came out this year and my five favorites were

Deerhunter
Clinic - Do It! (no love for clinic's best album in years, anywhere?)
Atlas Sound
Bonnie Prince Billy
Spiritualized

but 2008 for me was about being back in the states and being able to see live shows. this year, mostly in Denver, I saw the Constantines, Silver Jews, Octopus Project, Low, Calexico, Malkmus, Eef Barzelay, and Caribou/Fuck Buttons (in dallas). My favorite three shows stand above though, and they were

Spiritualized (best show in a long time)
Radiohead (in Dallas)
Sigur Rós at Red Rocks right in the middle of fall

In 2009, I'm moving again. This time to Korea. My girlfriend and I are going to teach English for a year, make money, and travel around Asia. We'll be teaching elementary school in Jeonnam province, in the southwest of the peninsula. It won't be like Kenya for a lot of reasons, but we're pretty excited to be off doing shit overseas again pretty soon. I'll have internet this time and probably a blog rather than mass emails... I'll keep the deuce posted. Or maybe I could just post all my ruminations here and point my aunts and uncles this way.

Happy 2009 deuce, and happy Merriweather Post Pavillion Day!

my turn

I will lose my beer gut.

I will craft something besides 1" buttons.

I will try to remember that I love seeing live music.

I will ask out the next man who turns me on.

I will leave this particular library job for one that either pays more money or is closer to my house or is hopefully both of those things.

I will make my home movie with skyler's camera and film something else besides my cat.

I'll take Spanish lessons.



that's enough.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

I know I was sort of late on the AC bandwagon (only really got into them since Strawberry Jam) but I just got a vinyl rip of Merriweather and it is so so good. It's very dense but completely accesible and the whole thing just makes me want to dance like an idiot. Summertime Clothes is the catchiest thing I've heard in months. It's on waffles and I assume elsewhere as well. Check it out, definitely worth it.

Oh yeah, check out Summertime Clothes right here. Right click, save target as, all that jazz.

*Edit* Also, while on the subject of good music, has anyone else heard of the band Here We Go Magic (featuring Luke Temple, who some may have heard of)? They (or he i guess, at least on the album recordings) have this self titled album that I think is out now (can't find where to buy it though) and it is amazing. Check out this song called Tunnelvision here. They are playing SXSW and I am excited to see them.